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Future Cities, Information
and Governance
Jonathan RaperCEO
TransportAPI.comBy Placr Ltd.
Future cities will be digital
marketplaces• Sensors will be everywhere
• Data will be pervasive
• Services will consume data
• How will distribution work?
Data distribution in the future city
• Data will be distributed by
• Producers < have limited catalogue
• Cities < need deep pockets for long term investment
• Aggregators < can gather and scale
• Aggregators will win
Dominant paradigm will be cross aggregation
• Aggregators can validate, standardise and add value
• Many private sector aggregators will arise, compete and cooperate
• What will this competition look like?
Free data markets in future digital
cities• Competition means free markets with open
access to the data
• Competition by feed attributes
• Competition by platform attributes
• Competition by T&Cs
Public data has to be open & at marginal
cost• If there is public task, there must be access
• If there is access it must be at marginal cost
• State should only compete with re-users on equal terms
• There must be equality of access to the data
• Data must be released in raw but usable form
Feed attributes
• Feed attributes include
• Uptime
• Response speed
• Syntactic integrity
• Semantic content
Platform attributes• Platforms will be
differentiated by
• Discoverability, metadata &catalogue
• Coverage and inclusion
• Innovation and customisation
• Pricing strategy
• Cross aggregation achieved
T&C innovation• Reservation of rights in content/ distribution?
• Gate keeps the income, but inhibits reuse by creating uncertainty and delay... platform may lose in cross-aggregation competition
• Don't reserve rights in content/ reuse?
• Stimulates reuse and innovation, but income has to be from packaging, service quality, customisation
Governance by regulation or
market?• Market is best regulator
• Don't want official platforms... no innovation and will be beauty contests for partnerships, no pressure on prices
iMove project is a prototype platform
• iMove has discoverability, data access and cross aggregation in place… but no T&Cs of its own
• IMove has same data on platform from (in one case) two sources… makes the choice of source down to T&Cs
Governance needs to be in the data
• If data is true, up to date and accurately described, then it doesn't matter how it is aggregated and used in a free society
• If there is use that misunderstands the data… the market/media will correct
• Platforms will be new forms of advocacy/partnership
transportapi.com•Covers all Britain’s public transport from open sources
•Live, timetables & infrastructure
•Historic archiving of movements
•Performance indicators
•Public transport journey planning
•Car and cycle routing
•500+ developers signed up
transportapi gallery
TransportAPI.com catalogue
Feed Source Footprint
Train service live departures Network Rail Great Britain
Train service timetables Network Rail Great Britain
Tube service live departures TfL London
Tube service timetables TfL London
Rail coach timetables Traveline National Dataset Great Britain
National Express coach timetables National Coach Services DB Great Britain
TfL Bus timetables TfL London
TfL Bus live departures TfL London
Non-TfL Bus timetables Traveline National Dataset GB non-London
Non-TfL Bus live departures Traveline NextBuses GB non-London
Journey planning itineraries Traveline SouthEast Traveline SE (England S. of Humber)
TransportBuzz tweet mapping TransportAPI UK and Ireland
Performance indicators for tube/train TransportAPI London/GB
Car-based journey planning from postcode to postcode
TransportAPI/OSM Great Britain
Cycle-based journey route planning from postcode to postcode
TransportAPI/CycleStreets UK
API Sign Ups Over Time
Lots of growth…..
Rate of growth accelerating
The Long Tail
Performance as added value•London Underground performance indicators
•Real travel time through London bus network•Train lateness maps across country
Partnerships like journeymapper.org
Constant iteration & new product development
“It's designed for transport planners and other professionals in the industry to get a mix of anecdotes and
incident data for specific places. For the rest of us, it's a gold mine of schadenfreude and witticisms.”
http://transportbuzz.com
